2012 Summer Olympics / Swimming - 200m Freestyle (Men)
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sport | swim |
discipline | 200 meters freestyle |
gender | Men |
place | London Aquatics Center |
Attendees | 40 athletes from 32 countries |
Competition phase | 29./30. July 2012 |
The contest over 200 meters freestyle men at the 2012 Olympics in London on 29 and 30 July 2012 at the London Aquatics Center held. 33 athletes took part.
There were six preliminary runs. The 16 fastest swimmers of all heats qualified for the two semi-finals that were held on the same day. Here too, the finalists qualified by setting the eight fastest times in both semi-finals.
Abbreviations:
WR = world record, OR = Olympic record, NR = national record
ER = European record , NAR = North American record , SAR = South American record, ASR = Asian record, AFR = African record, OZR = Oceania record
Existing records
World record |
Paul Biedermann ( Germany )
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1: 42.00 min | Rome , Italy | July 28, 2009 |
Olympic record |
Michael Phelps ( United States )
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1: 42.96 min | Beijing , People's Republic of China | August 12, 2008 |
Title holder
Olympic champion |
Michael Phelps ( United States )
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1: 42.96 min | Beijing 2008 |
World Champion |
Ryan Lochte ( United States )
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1: 44.44 min | Shanghai 2011 |
European champion |
Paul Biedermann ( Germany )
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1: 46.27 min | Debrecen 2012 |
leader
Forward 1
July 29, 2012
space | Surname | nation | time | annotation |
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1 | Nicholas Schwab |
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1: 53.41 min | NO |
2 | Gilles Marquet |
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1: 58.91 min | |
3 | Anderson Lim |
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2: 02.26 min | NO |
Forward 2
July 29, 2012
space | Surname | nation | time | annotation |
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1 | Matias Koski |
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1: 49.84 min | |
2 | Radovan Siljevski |
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1: 51.40 min | |
3 | Mario Montoya |
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1: 51.66 min | |
4th | Sebastián Jahnsen |
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1: 52.36 min | |
5 | Jessie Lacuna |
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1: 52.91 min | |
6th | Raúl Martínez |
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1: 54.23 min |
Forward 3
July 29, 2012
space | Surname | nation | time | annotation |
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1 | Blake Worsley |
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1: 48.14 min | |
2 | Nimrod Shapira Bar-Or |
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1: 48.60 min | |
3 | Cristian Quintero |
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1: 48.71 min | |
4th | Glenn Surgeloose |
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1: 48.77 min | |
5 | David Brandl |
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1: 49.00 min | |
6th | Ahmed Mathlouthi |
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1: 49.68 min | |
7th | Tiago Venâncio |
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1: 52.36 min | |
- | Mads Glæsner |
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DNS |
Forward 4
July 29, 2012
space | Surname | nation | time | annotation |
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1 | Danila Isotov |
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1: 46.61 min | |
2 | Robert Renwick |
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1: 46.86 min | |
3 | Paul Biedermann |
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1: 47.27 min | |
4th | Grégory Mallet |
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1: 47.39 min | |
5 | Dominik Meichtry |
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1: 47.97 min | |
6th | Ieuan Lloyd |
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1: 48.52 min | |
7th | Clemens Rapp |
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1: 48.75 min | |
8th | Marco Belotti |
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1: 49.14 min |
Forward 5
July 29, 2012
space | Surname | nation | time | annotation |
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1 | Sun Yang |
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1: 46.24 min | |
2 | Ryan Lochte |
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1: 46.45 min | |
3 | Ricky Berens |
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1: 47.07 min | |
4th | Dominik Kozma |
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1: 47.18 min | |
5 | Brett Fraser |
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1: 47.74 min | |
6th | Li Yunqi |
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1: 48.72 min | |
7th | Ben Hockin |
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1: 48.91 min | |
8th | Dion Dreesens |
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1: 49.00 min |
Ben Hockin, whose father is British, was a member of the British 4-100m freestyle relay at the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing .
Forward 6
July 29, 2012
space | Surname | nation | time | annotation |
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1 | Yannick Agnel |
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1: 46.60 min | |
2 | Tae-hwan Park |
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1: 46.79 min | |
3 | Kenrick Monk |
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1: 46.94 min | |
4th | Sebastiaan Verschuren |
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1: 47.31 min | |
5 | Thomas Fraser-Holmes |
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1: 47.50 min | |
6th | Artyom Lobusov |
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1: 47.91 min | |
7th | Matthew Stanley |
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1: 48.19 min | |
8th | Shaune Fraser |
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1: 48.53 min |
Shaune and Brett Fraser from the Cayman Islands are brothers.
Semifinals
Run 1
July 29, 2012
space | Surname | nation | time | annotation |
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1 | Paul Biedermann |
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1: 46.10 min | |
2 | Ryan Lochte |
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1: 46.31 min | |
3 | Robert Renwick |
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1: 46.65 min | |
Danila Isotov |
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1: 46.65 min | ||
5 | Ricky Berens |
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1: 46.87 min | |
6th | Brett Fraser |
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1: 47.01 min | |
7th | Grégory Mallet |
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1: 47.56 min | |
8th | Dominik Meichtry |
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1: 48.25 min |
Run 2
July 29, 2012
space | Surname | nation | time | annotation |
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1 | Sun Yang |
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1: 45.61 min | |
2 | Yannick Agnel |
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1: 45.84 min | |
3 | Tae-hwan Park |
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1: 46.02 min | |
4th | Thomas Fraser-Holmes |
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1: 46.80 min | |
5 | Dominik Kozma |
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1: 46.93 min | |
6th | Sebastiaan Verschuren |
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1: 46.95 min | |
7th | Kenrick Monk |
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1: 47.38 min | |
8th | Artyom Lobusov |
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1: 48.26 min |
final
July 30, 2012, 7:43 p.m. CET
space | Surname | nation | time | annotation |
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1 | Yannick Agnel |
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1: 43.14 min | NO |
2 | Sun Yang |
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1: 44.93 min | NO |
Tae-hwan Park |
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1: 44.93 min | ||
4th | Ryan Lochte |
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1: 45.04 min | |
5 | Paul Biedermann |
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1: 45.53 min | |
6th | Robert Renwick |
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1: 46.53 min | |
7th | Thomas Fraser-Holmes |
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1: 46.93 min | |
8th | Danila Isotov |
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1: 47.75 min |
There was a dead race between Yang and Tae-hwan, both struck at the same time. The silver medal was thus awarded twice, the bronze medal was dropped.
Agnel achieved the first French Olympic victory on this route, Yang won the first medal for China in this discipline.
The Frenchman swam the third fastest time ever swum on this distance. Only world record holder Biedermann and the Olympic champion from Beijing, Michael Phelps, were faster.
Picture gallery
Web links
- Olympic Summer Games 2012 / Swimming - 200 m freestyle in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
Individual evidence
- ↑ Report by Swimmingworld Magazine from July 30, 2012 (English) ( Memento of the original from May 27, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.